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The attempt to sink the Cross of Carabuco is foiled

Artist: Joseph Lopez de los Rios (as painter) and Joseph de Arellano (as composer of the text)
Title: The attempt to sink the Cross of Carabuco is foiled. Tondo 12/30 on The Story of the Cross of Carabuco.
Date: 1684
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Detail of Judgement, 1/4 canvases on The Last Four Things, Templo de San Bartolomé, Ciudad de Carabuco, Departamento de La Paz, Bolivia.
Photo Source: Pedro Querejazu
Correspondence Credit: Almerindo Ojeda
Note: Christoval de Jaque de los Ríos de Mançanedo recorded the use of rocks as ballast to sink the cross in his Voyages aux Indes Orientales et Occidentales[.] This is a travel narrative allegedly composed ¿in Spanish? in 1606 but first published in French by H. Ternaux-Compans in his Archives des Voyages[.] Tome I, Livraison II, pp. 241-350. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1840. Thus, on p. 342 we read: Lors de l'arrivée de Espagnols, les Indiens, voyant qu'ils plantaient partout des croix comme symbole de leur domination, essayèrent vainement de détruire celle-la; ils la jetèrent ensuite dans le lac; mais, quoiqu'ils y eussent attaché quantité de pierres, elle surnagea toujours.
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